The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 76
‘If my father had that stick, he would beat the dogs and cats that steal the king’s meat,’ replied the boy.
Who acts: father, dogs · What happens: have, beat, steal, reply · To what, where: stick, dogs, meat, boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 beat | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 beat | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 stick | det |
| 7 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beat | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 beat | aux |
| 11 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 replied | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dogs | det |
| 13 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 beat | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cats | cc |
| 15 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dogs | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 steal | nsubj |
| 17 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meat | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 king | case |
| 21 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 steal | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beat | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 beat | punct |
| 24 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 boy | det |
| 26 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 replied | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | my father | that stick | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient | ||||
| 2 | beat | would | father | the dogs and cats | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme | ||||
| 3 | steal | present | the dogs and cats | the king's meat | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | the boy | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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